Costings
We understand that childcare funding can be extremely confusing. Therefore, we try our best to break it down as simply as possible for our families.
Your child may be eligible for funding the term after they turn 2 years old for 15 hours or 3 years old for 30 hours. Your child may be entitled to 15 hours or 30 hours of funding each week depending on your family’s circumstances. We can also accept childcare vouchers, tax- free childcare and grants. Please visit Childcarechoices.gov.uk to find out your entitlement. If you are interested in a draft bill please contact us.
Government funding is only available 38 weeks a year (term time) as we open 50 weeks a year, we provide a ‘stretched offer.’ This means to avoid large, unexpected bills during school holidays we divide the total amount of funding entitlement over 50 weeks.
15 hours- STRETCHED- 11.4 hours
30 hours- STRETCHED- 22.8 hours.
Additional Hours are charged at:
Two Year Olds: £7.05 per hour.
Three & Four Year Olds: £6.80 per hour.
Applying for Funding
You must check childcarechoices.gov.uk and make your application for funding before the deadline date. Once the deadline date has passed, we cannot apply for your funding and you will miss out until the following term. Once you have applied for your funding, you cannot amend your application on the government website to increase hours until the following term.
Parental Contribution
Every funded hour is subject to a parent contribution (also known as consumable, service or essentials charge). This covers the cost of everything the government funding does not provide for.
This is charged at £1.10 per funded hour.
Fully Funded Places
We have minimal fully funded places available. These are hours not subject to the parent contributions and additional hours on top of funding are not available. In taking up one of these fully funded places, your child will not have set days each week and you will have designated drop off and pick up times and additional things you may have to provide. These places are extremely limited and on a case by case basis.
For more information, please contact us.